History of art (1921) (14596824837)

Identifier: historyofar02faur (find matches)
Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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Sword Guards. (H. Vever Collection.) paints charming idyls in which he associates womenand flowers and, through the discreet interplay of theeffaced blacks, the burnt-out reds, and the pale greens,gives us glimpses of landscape in which lanternslight up the cherry blossoms that have come outunder the snow. The art of these two Japanese wouldsuffice to define the period. But the very strong, verysensual, and very gentle sentiment that even its greatestmen had for the beauty of women did not often sufficeto conceal the lapses in their expression. Occupied asthey were in penetrating the structure of small things,
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Masks. (From The KoJcka.) 144 MEDIAEVAL ART did they perhaps not have the time to analyze thehuman being? When they speak of him their languagehesitates and floats, and formula appears. The feetand the hands, the arms and the legs, are singularlydeformed and atrophied in ways that are not alwaysvery expressive; one finds them approximately thesame among all the Japanese artists, as if one painter